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Increasing data is driving collaboration among drugmakers, insurers, health systems and technology firms to deliver cost-effective and improved treatments to patients, a just-released PwC report concludes. Read More
A Delaware state judge dismissed with prejudice a decade-old lawsuit filed by six New York Teamsters organizations against AstraZeneca alleging consumer fraud over marketing of the heartburn drug Nexium, saying the purchasers had no evidence they’d been harmed. Read More
Teva said Wednesday that it has launched a generic version of Janssen Pharmaceutical’s migraine drug Axert in the U.S., following receipt of FDA approval. Read More
A former Warner Chilcott district sales manager pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to deceive Medicare and private health insurers so they would pay for the firm’s osteoporosis drugs, Actonel and Atelvia. Read More
Amphastar is facing increasing pressure to cut the high cost of naloxone, this time in a letter from Rep. Elijah Cummings to Maryland officials urging them to negotiate a lower price for the opioid overdose reversal drug. Read More
The second former Gallant Pharma International employee in as many days has been barred by the FDA from doing business in the U.S., after she was convicted of a felony for selling counterfeit drugs. Read More
The FDA has permanently barred an Arlington, Va., distributor from doing business in the U.S. after he was convicted of two felonies for selling counterfeit products. Read More
Early notice of production shutdowns by manufacturers of life-supporting and life-sustaining drugs and biologics have allowed the FDA to avert more than 550 potential drug shortages in the last three years, the agency says in a final rule mandating early notice. Read More
Allergan will pay $250 million to acquire the worldwide rights to two of Merck’s investigational small molecule oral calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonists for use against migraines. Read More
AstraZeneca and Cephalon have agreed to pay $54 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that they knowingly underpaid quarterly rebates owed to states under the Medicaid program. Read More